Perhaps we should focus less on developing skills that could be done by AI, and focus more on developing skills like emotional regulation, living within our values, being authentic, and having empathy.
All tagged emotional intelligence
Welcome to Tapestry
With a great steering team of board-certified chaplains and a lot of interest from chaplains across the country, I’m delighted to see the initial vision to serve chaplains associated with the Stone-Campbell tradition and ACU come to reality.
The Discipleship Toolkit: Adopting Some Tools from the Theatre
Discipleship is not just leading others through teaching, sermons, or reprimands. A great mentor creates space for other Christians to experience God and grow with him.
Love: It’s Time to Get to Work
Reflecting on years of teaching young students, I am reminded of exercises captioned “Listen and do.” Might this be a simple, yet awfully mature, set of ancient instructions?
We Are Sheep
Sheep respond to nurture, and we are sheep according to John’s Gospel. Thus, we know our master’s voice of grace, which causes us to turn our heads and assent to follow.
Reflection Roundup: Hospitality
Radical hospitality calls us to ask ourselves what amount of our own preference might we be willing to sacrifice to create space for the perceived need of another.
Not My Circus
What do we leaders do when it IS our circus—all three rings of it?
Through a Glass Dimly: Emotional Intelligence As Discipleship (Part 2)
The gospel is an emotional story that requires emotional intelligence to discern and follow.
Through a Glass Dimly: Emotional Intelligence As Discipleship (Part 1)
Our heritage focuses on right thinking and purposeful doing, often without acknowledging emotion.
PSA: People in Church Aren’t Psychic
Of all the communication-based issues a person could have in church, my favorite is the apparent assumption of psychic abilities.
The Importance of Prepositions
I want to take that notion of being responsible to others instead of for others, and apply it to the church.
The Way of Wise Leadership
Phronesis is the wisdom drawn from experience, knowledge and insight to do the good and right thing in any particular context and moment.
Relationships and Leadership
How might elders and ministers develop stronger relational ties with each other and their congregations?
Shadow Stalking
I believe we haven’t done much teaching about shadow in church settings. Only with mature honesty can a true, peace that passes all understanding guard our hearts.
The Things that Make for Peace: Making Friends with Your Emotions
My anger is less likely to seek to destroy someone else than it is to seek to destroy me. That’s one of the things I’m learning about my anger as I get to know it better.
Let's Try That at Home
When an organization faces the normal shifts and changes that accompany any living body, both task and relational efforts are critical.
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
When all is said and done, a critical component of leadership is how to relate to people! One way to explore this critical aspect of leadership is through the lens of emotional intelligence.